I mean this seriously Was listening to Durant last night at 3am while leveling a priest because insomnia and he covered the medieval history of translations and universities and language Incredibly impressive how really every scholar in Europe just communicated in Latin
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To hear him tell it, the educated in Europe were genuinely integrated in a period of massive cultural fragmentation The abandonment of a common (and arcane) scholarly tongue seems like a real loss for the learned And also cuts us off from our roots
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easy to imagine that Inquiry began in 1968 if you can't read the classic and medieval texts, I guess
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here's what I want to know: 1) in 1400 what percent of population spoke the lingua franca (latin) and could thus be part of this community? 2) in 2019 what percent of population spoke the lingua franca (Enlgish) and could thus be part of this community? I suspect larger now
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1. Not many 2. Also not many but they don't know it
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my thought is that if you are studying chemistry or astrophysics or mechanical engineering or anything in academia in 2019, you speak English and thus, it's as good as it's ever been
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The specific fields you name communicate primarily in an arcane and technical language :) How does this sound replacing the fieldw with cultural anthropology or sociology or (sob) history?
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> cultural anthropology or sociology or (sob) history? those aren't real bro
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